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Why? Cuz Sandy Says So!

Mistress Kneads to Sleep

Lately Mistress has been coming home from work very tired and a bit woozy and distressed. Today she found out why, maybe. She thinks she may have hayfever or is allergic to the weeds outside her work.
At least she's not allergic to ME!
No, she looooooves me!
Today she came home and laid down after awhile. I came up cuz I was confoozed, that she was lying down when it was still light out, but she's been doing that alot lately, then she doesn't come to bed until it's way past the witching hour!
Shame, shame on her!
So I laid on her, and after a minute I started kneading and she was so happy! I think I kneaded her five times tonight, and she pets me and, well, if a human could purr. . . she would!
Then she said that she was going to miss me. Where is she going? She has a day off tomorrow, then Squeakers came up and told me that Mistress is leaving us to go to her Mom's for something called the Fourth. That made me sad. I could make her feel oh-so good and melt her into a puddle of human if she'd just stay with me!
Humans! They don't know what's good for them!
Then she asked me if I'd knead her back and shoulders.Who does she think I am, that cat in that one commercial?
I only knead tummies! And lately, her tummy isn't so squooshy! And she doesn't moan anymore when I knead her and hit a rib or something!

Fourth of July? I don't remember much about this holiday. With my former Mommy, I just thought it was just another day with some banging going on outside. Last year was my first 4th with Mistress and Squeakers, and I spent a big part of it hiding under the bed, and Mistress would drag me out! And she watched a big noisy light show from the balcony, she said that noise was coming from some place called the Taste of Minnesota. .. what's to taste? It's just MN, but Mistress said something about too many people, greasy expensive food, and rides. *shrugs*
I'm glad I get to stay home. Mistress hates crowds too, so she's going to stay with her Mom.
Okay .. I guess. She's just going to miss my massages!

Oh well, happy Fourth to every American kitty and their families!

Sandy Smile

What? Another nickname for me? AAAAAHHH!!!
She's even thinking of changing my name to Sandy Smile, but she might not.
Anyway, she was looking at me very closely this weekend and one time my mouth seemed like a normal cat's, and why wouldn't it? And then another time she swears the corners of my mouth got longer and pulled up a little!
She's nuts.
But she swears she's seen it a few times. Then one of her Metro Mobility drivers was talking about picking up a purrson named Sarah, and someone on the little radio thought it was Sara, not Sarah, and he said "No, like 'Sarah Smile'" the song, so Mistress now calls me Sandy Smile.
It's annoying, but if I had to have a nickname. .. it's better than Sannywannykins! Now if she'd try to stop trying to hit that high note in the song "Sandy SMIIIILE" *shivers*
Today I talked to Mistress telepathically again. . .fifteen or more miles away! She was very VERY stressed out, the phones at work have been very busy for a LONG time, and now the computers are updating (whatever that is) and so they're slow, and I guess they need fast computers for fast calls?? *shrugs* She came home very frustrated yesterday and today she was very frustrated again. So on her break, she went and sat down to relax and I got her to kinda zone out and connect to me, even though I was miles away! I gave her headbonks, purrs, cheekrubs and everything, and told her that she didn't have to wear my shirt (she made a shirt with my pic on it on Shutterfly) for me to connect to her.
Even Squeakers came and gave her a few air licks, and she talked to us both, unloading all her stress, or most of it, we gave her a telepathic shoulder and back rub, and she swears almost all of her tight muscle pain went away! She wanted to look at her watch, but I told her NO, to just forget about where she was, forget the fellow employee humans sitting nearby, forget about the phones for twenty minutes and we both, mostly me, stayed with her.
Talk about Bring Your Pet to Work!
She was so zoned out that when her watch beeped, it does that every hour, and it told her it was three o'clock and time to go back to work, she had a hard time coming back to Earth and work, she just kinda walked like a zombie MOL! But I told her to kinda come back down to Earth or people will think she was on drugs or something.
She had another hour and a half, and I stayed with her, reminding her of some of the funny things that Squeakers (not me, I don't do many funny things) did, and last night, how Squeakers rode the back of her desk chair, and she almost busted out laughing, but I stopped that before she embarrased herself and confused the purrson on the other line.
When her shift was over, I walked with her while she punched out and cleaned up, then I sat with her while she waited for her ride. She asked me to meet her at the door, but I said "maybe, but I don't think so" and I told her that we should be fed earlier, so she did feed us earlier, almost as soon as she got home, or after she relaxed a bit.
She was really woozy so she laid down next to me, and I did my headbonk and cheekrub thing, and after awhile I kneaded her! Not on her shoulders as she requested, but on her tummy. I love her tummy, it's nice and gooshy like dough!
Squakers came up and I started to hiss, but Mistress asked us not to fight, and we didn't. Squeakers lived up to her promise, she gave Mistress kisses on her arm, like she did in the reverie
Mistress is still kinda woozy. She has to be careful, cuz if she gets too stressed, she could have a seizure, and it's been almost two months since she's had one, so she could very likely have one one of these days soon, don't know. They come any time from one month to one year in between.
So we just have to keep her chilled out for awhile til all this stress goes byebye! If that computer gives her problems tomorrow, I'm gonna come and give it a whack! Although, Mistress has tried that, to no avail.
While I was with her telepathically, the smile hardly left her face.
Maybe that's why she calls me Sandy Smile??

Rest Zones

Who's been sleeping on my bed?
Mistress says that we kitties are like women, we change our minds alot, in a split second .. . what an insult to us kitties! I mean, I love my Mistress, but I am not like her at all!
Back when we got our Morgans Bed in February, at first, both Squeakers and I weren't sure how we felt about them. Mistress got a little concerned and sprinkled catnip on it, and we went for it. . .the catnip I mean! Then we vacated the premesis. . .so to speak. One day she walked in and found me curled up on it and she got so excited and woke me up! After that, Squeakers didn't wanna be left out, so she was next to sleep on the bed, and it was the first real time we took turns and for at least a month we loved the bed, off and on, that is.
Then we deserted it when the weather got nicer. I slept in a ray of sun on the floor or Mistress' bed, and Squeakers took to either her condo or the boogie mat. . I sometimes chose my boogie mat also. Then when the weather finally got better, Squeakers went to the top of her condo. I guess she avoids it in the winter cuz it's by the window. .. who wants to look at snow?
But lately, after Mistress did some cleaning, we've rediscovered the Morgans bed again, of course she was thrilled
But here's the funny part. . . When Mistress gets up in the early morning to use her litterbox, she sees Squeakers sitting on it! Sometimes, if it isn't a dire need, Mistress shrugs her shoulders and either goes back to bed or finish one thing she got up to do which is change the TV channel for the DVD recordings or get a sip of water. If Squeakers is still on the john when Mistress gets up, which is when the tiny little urge becomes dire need, she shoves Squeakers off!
When Squeaks